Season Analysis: Scott Aukerman has a great rapport with Reggie Watts, and a great rapport with all of his funny friends.  There are several funny segments that I assume were brought over from the podcast.  But sometimes it all gets a bit silly.

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“Elizabeth Banks Wears A Red Dress”
The most important part of comedy is the element of surprise.  So for a show as ironic and absurd as Comedy Bang! Bang!, it’s hard to continually produce good comedy when surprise is always expected.  So it was nice to have a guest like Elizabeth Banks, who more or less acted as herself instead of trying to match Scott Aukerman as he played “Scott Aukerman.”  But the real reason this wins as best episode is David Wain, who appears as television critic Gordon “The Hatchet” Thatchet.”  Wain operates on a different comedy plane than everyone else in the room (always a formula for success), as he constantly assigns star ratings to every moment of the show and tells Scott, “You’re no Johnny Carson, honey.”